Tripletail
 

Any of you guys target Tripletail????

i have before, best eating fish along the coast...

It is the best inshore fish on the coast..... West Matty is probably the best place to catch them in Texas - If you know how to catch them.... Where do yall find them there???

where i grew up fishing they are only offshore, weed lines, debris, buoy chain....

saw an episode of keith warren in tx catching huge ones on poppin corks and shrimp, never caught one that big.

Come on over to Matty, I'll put you on some..... We had seven before the wind started blowing two weeks ago... My tourney partner went yesterday and it's back on again.... May head that way here shortly.....:smokin:

i saw on a t.v show the outdoors with doc, they was on the buoy chain tearing them up. They say debris lines are good. Ive never caught or eaten one.

pics
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Undoubtably the biggest idiot on the boob tube.

Here's one from a two weeks ago...
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1245953013

nice fish....why you holding it next to the camera so close:grinpimp:

I was pretending that I was from LA..... :D Wasn't huge, only 17lbs... Plus we were HAMMERED by pic time.....:cheers:

Are they always that beat up? Are those worms all over it?

It's not beat up, they change color when put on ice.... That's not worms, just something that stuck to it from the pier.....

Bruce you didnt get in on them when they where putting the pipeline through the lake. had a couple of good days with them.

nice fish man. that is the best eating right there

Do you cast from the rear or does the SCB back up fast? Nice fish BTW.

Damn that's some good eating salt water sac a lait

Let's see...nope didn't miss a call! ***

Fish from the front deck..... You'd be surprised what a 26P Pro ET will do in reverse.....:D

Ryan, I'm off that week after the 4th. Lets go see if we can get some of them TT's. I'll be taking my boat back down Monday the 6th. :D

I wanted to go today, but the Matagorda Bays CCA Banquet messed with my head last night.......I think someone put poison in the rib-eye's cause my head hurts..... Think I was worse off than the Indian last night......:smokin:

:smokin:

im sorry trout taste better

Ya I guess to you trout taste better since you have never eatin triple tail.

kind of like when people say sac-a-lait taste better than any saltwater fish. makes me want to slap them.

Dang....I tried!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Over here on the "east side", we catch them in Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound..... mostly "sight-casting" to crab floats,etc...fun to catch and real good eating..

Any one hear of any Triple Tail in Big Lake yet this year? When they were dreging the pipe line through the middle of big lake we would catch them arond all the pilings they had up marking the pip line, fun stuff, wish they would have kept them up!

yes them pilings where fun. I havent seen any yet this year but shouldnt be long now. I did like the spelling on them crossing signs. Had to look at the first a long time before I figured it out:*****::*****:

oh yea, seen quite a few boats end up high ground many a time! They had them arrows or something, i used to actually get right in the middle of the dredged area, big trout would hold up in there when the lake got hot, it was easy pickings with them pilings!

did you put that line on your gps, it is still holding some fish about halfway down.

Yes i did and occasionaly fish it when the lake gets full of boats, nice to have that marked so you can get away sometimes...

Here's some we picked up yesterday...

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1246282153

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1246282201

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1246282234

The one on the left is 22lbs, the one on the right is 18lbs.......

Never caught triple tail before...where would one catch a triple tail in SWLA

lake if you're lucky, or the buoy chains in the gulf, or grass lines offshore usually around July and August

Frank Davis did a thing last Summer on the news about Triple Tails in Lake Ponchartrain. I've never caught one, but they are legendary table fare here in Texas.

PM me if you want to go chase some "Tails".....

Thanks for the offer Ryan. I'll do so one of these days. I'm just too hung up trying to deal with fixing Blockade Runners and tearing down the Ghost Camp. As long as none of Ike's friends visit this year, I'll be up for it next year.

Sounds good.... Just let me know...

tripletail
 

here are a few cool tripletails pics

That is some good pictures there Bruce

Very nice pics, especially the one of it near the bouy, where were those taken?